Barclays PLC

The Daily Telegraph: Zimbabwe is now targeting Western banks, including Barclays, with operations in the country after top African conglomerate Ecobank complied with black empowerment laws of selling majority shares to locals

The Daily Telegraph: A move to block the naming of 42 Barclays staff named in documents linked to the investigation into Libor-rigging has been branded "implausible" and "over-stated"

BP PLC

The Daily Telegraph: BP's safety standards are likely to come under scrutiny once more after an attack and kidnapping at its jointly-operated In Amenas gas field in Algeria, in which two men have reportedly been killed

The Guardian: Warnings that the world is headed for "peak oil" appear "increasingly groundless", BP's chief executive Bob Dudley said on Wednesday

Legal and General Group PLC

Financial Times: Paul Milsom, 45, a former equities sales trader at the investment arm of Legal & General, has indicated that he will plead guilty in the UK financial regulator’s biggest investigation into insider trading